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Guided Reading & Analysis: African Trade Routes

Chapter 9- Expansion of African Trade pg 161-179
Purpose:
This guide is not only a place to record notes as you read, but also to provide a place and structure for reflections and analysis using higher level thinking skills with
new knowledge gained from the reading.

1. Migrations of Bantu-speakers
Key Concepts & Notes pgs. 161-163
Main Ideas Analysis

Key Concept 3.1 Who is Ibn Battuta? Why is his travelogue important?
Expansion and
Intensification of
communication and
exchange networks
II. The movement of Where did the Bantu originate from and what was their migration patten? What changes did this bring to the areas that the Bantu
peoples caused migrated into?
environmental and
linguistic effects
III.Cross-cultural
exchanges were What innovations and ideas did the Bantu bring as they migrated? Where did bananas originate from and then later
fostered by the migrate to? What changes did they bring to the new
intensification of areas where they were cultivated?
existing, or the
creation of new,
networks of trade What technology did they bring and how did it spread?
and communication.
Why were there so many varieties of Bantu languages?

Key Concept 3.3 What diseases were introduced by the Bantu?

Increased productive
capacity and its’ Why would these migrations create commonalities
consequences throughout Sub-Saharan Africa?
III. Despite
significant How did the Bantu people change when they reached East Africa?
continuities in
social structures
and in methods of
production, there
were also some
important changes What are matrilineal societies?
in labor Why did larger kingdoms later emerge and replace the
management and in early political structures:
the effects of
religious conversion
on gender relations Describe the Migration patterns as found on the diagram on pg. 163
and family life.

Describe the political structure of states in Sub-Saharan Africa:

2.Islam’s impact on trade

Key Concepts &
Main Ideas Notes pgs. 164-166 Analysis
 How did Islam spread into Africa?
Key Concept 3.2 1. How did camels arrive into Africa and why did they
II. Interregional become an important part of their trade system?
contacts and
conflicts between 2.
states and
empires
encouraged
significant
technological and What type of commodities were traded in West Africa? Compare the differences and similarities between
cultural transfers. the Trans-Saharan trade network and Indian Ocean
trade:

Which kingdoms were primarily involved in the Trans-Saharan trade route?

Key Concept 3.2
II. Interregional
contacts and
conflicts between
states and
Who was involved in trade along East Africa? What trade cities were established?
empires
encouraged
significant
technological and
cultural transfers.
What is the Swahili coast? Why was it called that?

What types of products were traded along the Swahili coast?

Key Concepts & Political Structures of West & East Africa Analysis
Main Ideas Notes pgs. 167-169
Key Concept 3.2 Where and when did the kingdom of Ghana develop?
I. Empires
collapsed and
were
reconstituted; What products were traded between Ghana merchants and Islamic merchants?
in some regions
new state forms
emerged.
How did the Mali kingdom emerge and become prosperous?

What products were farmed in Mali?

What is important about Timbuktu?

Who was Mansa Musa? What did he do that was significant? What is his pilgrimage evidence of?

How would his pilgrimage change the outside world’s

Which kingdom replaced the Mali kingdom? Around what century? perception of Mali?

Where was the Zimbabwe kingdom located and when did it become more powerful?

Who did Zimbabwe trade with and what products did they export? Why did Great Zimbabwe decline?
 4. Social and Cultural Life
Key Concepts & Notes pgs. 170-172 Analysis
Main Ideas
Key Concept 3.3 What are the 3 ways in which Africa’s small communities were organized:
III. Despite 1. Kinship
significant
continuities in 2.
social
structures and 3.
in methods of
production, Describe gender roles in African communities: What is the difference between matrilineal
there were also and matriarchal?
some important
changes in
labor
management How was slavery practiced in Africa?
and in the
effects of
religious
conversion on
gender relations What was the Zanj rebellion?
and family life.

Why was music such an important part of African culture?

What other society practiced ancestor veneration?

What role did visual arts play in African societies?

What is a griot? Why were griots such an important part of

African history?

Why is Swahili referred to as a “syncretic” language?

What is the legacy of Swahili today?

What areas and time period did Christianity enter into Sub-Saharan Africa? Why did Christianity in Ethiopia develop
independently?

What evidence of religious syncretism in

Ethiopia do we have?